dutch nova 1/4 mile

[mayhem]

dutch c20xe nova on bitburg few weeks back... what a time on the 1/4 mile! !

http://youtube.com/watch?v=c1aXaAhq9LU

[Dar]

Nice!! That launched very well:thumb:

[Martin]

wtf thats fast


SPEC please lol

sounds let'ish at the start tho

[Mike]

lol ace!

Theres a company in Germany the builds an exports 300 to 400bhp XE engines, they ring at ?8k delivered tho lol

[Adam]

Must be a very lightweight car, as thats quite a low terminal speed for the 1/4 time it did.

[BIGS]

lol ace!

Theres a company in Germany the builds an exports 300 to 400bhp XE engines, they ring at ?8k delivered tho lol

Do you have a link to a site or how to contact them?

[Philsutton]

He pulled a 1.74 60ft time thats amazing for a fwd, If I could do that Id be well into the 11s. Whats the engine spec anyway?, if its without nitrous that is good going.

[Dar]

The highest NA XE i've heard of is 300bhp and that costs wayyyyyy over 8k.
Name or links?

[Mike]

The highest NA XE i've heard of is 300bhp and that costs wayyyyyy over 8k.
Name or links?

It totalled 17k deustch marks, ill try an find it now.

EDIT - Link is on my other laptop at my rents

[Paul]

awaits enslaught but the first time i watched that it looked like a rwd.

[BIGS]

yea 8k is cheep. ive added up for 300 bhp and its going to cost me around 12k - 13k So think i might be buyin from them if this is true

[Dar]

Exactly, 8k for 300bhp NA would be a billy bargin!

[Mike]

awaits enslaught but the first time i watched that it looked like a rwd.

same here :thumb:

[BIGS]

ive just watched it again and it is rwd. look at the smoke from the rear

[Dar]

The setup looks FWD i.e. rear jacked up and solid with skinny wheels. Although off the mark there seems to be a puff of smoke from the rear, but that could have came from the exhaust. If it was RWD I would have expected skinny wheels on the front and bigger ones on the rear.

However I don't follow the 1/4 mile stuff at all. Going to rewatch it.

[Mike]

there used to be some old skool german Opel Corsa A site, and i found a link from there to a tunning company that build engines to silly high spec's just to sell, they included delivery into europe, range was from 1.4 8v/16v upto silly high power LET engines, silly like 600bhp. I cant for the life of me remember the site tho

[Dar]

there used to be some old skool german Opel Corsa A site, and i found a link from there to a tunning company that build engines to silly high spec's just to sell, they included delivery into europe, range was from 1.4 8v/16v upto silly high power LET engines, silly like 600bhp. I cant for the life of me remember the site tho
Try harder!!:D

Just looked again and I think that its silly stripped out, as in autograss silly. RuningFWD but with feck all at all in the rear apart fron whats needed to hold the wheels on.

EDIT: Sometimes google is just too good

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a26/corsaracer/meetings/Drachten%2014-9-2007/th_Eljan.jpg (http://s8.photobucket.com/albums/a26/corsaracer/meetings/Drachten%2014-9-2007/?action=view&current=Eljan.flv)


EDIT: EDIT: If thats the car i'm thinking of the front is also spaceframed.

[mayhem]

tis a XE, no turbo or nos. FWD

some pics

http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Foto-SFNIKE3V.jpg
http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Foto-MYETK4QT.jpg

[mayhem]

it weight about 600 kilogram with engine and rollcage btw.

[Dar]

Yup, thats the one I thought it was. Monster:thumb: :D

[dhdev (Oli)]

it weight about 600 kilogram with engine and rollcage btw.
Shows how lardy Big blocks are then doesn't it ;)

Awesome nova tho! :cool:

[mayhem]

600-700 kg is what i heard.

btw, there's a repo of this car with the full engine spec's on www.corsa-novatuning.nl (http://www.corsa-novatuning.nl)

[spanishfly]

I could do that in my car with slicks like that! ;)

[t45_ste]

http://www.corsa-novatuning.nl/uk/eljan.html


Chicken oriental!!

[loggyboy]

Trouble with that is its almost getting to the point where its almost a 'funny' car. Just nova outer panels over a spaceframed chassis.